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“American Journalism has been regularly criticized for failing to be ‘objective.’” The opening lines of Michael Schudson’s “Discovering the News.” If Lt. Colonel Slade heard those words, he would surely reply with, “This is such a crock of shit,” like he did in “Scent of a Woman” to the idea of objectivity. Michael Schudson. UCSD.edu The […]

Few correspondents in television today are so versitile and are so well connected to the world when compared to the most senior correspondent for Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. Samantha Bee has been making us laugh while watching The Daily Show since 2003. Her eccentric behavior and use of shocking vocabulary fit in perfectly to the show. Before working on […]

Some knew him as king of the anchormen, others as the most trusted man in America, old ironpants, Uncle Walter, and to some he was the first television anchorman. His name, Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., his image, news reporting at its best. The career of Walter Cronkite in news began in 1935 in the […]

In the dark world of the constant price increases, there was a man who sought to slaughter these prices and to make things reasonable. He created a newspaper which would attract a larger class of people and did so in one of the busiest cities in the United States, New York City. The man was Benjamin Day, […]

The difference making The Roman Empire better than all those who came before it, was how news travelled. The Roman Empire through the use of the acta, started the idea of newspapers and was able to remain a strong empire for nearly 1000 years. The Acta had been around for nearly one hundred years before Julius Caesar came to rule. Julius Caesar […]

While walking down the streets of Medieval London or 17th Century Paris or even of 18th century Bermuda one may wonder what disease the crazy man on the corner has who keeps screaming out with various instruments such as bells, drums and gongs. One may be surprised to find out though that this man is not crazy at all, but is instead one […]

Before Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Before newspapers, pamphlets and gazettes there was only one way to get the news. Word-of-mouth. For over 102,000 years word-of-mouth has been used to transfer the latest news from one person to the next across vast regions. Stories of Pheidippides and Israel Bissell show us how far people went to spread the news. […]